Knitting by Zen

UPDATE: here’s what’s left!

Prices are suggested only - please, make me an offer and help me clean out this part of my stash. I’ll be doing books soon, and then commercial yarns. Please pm me any questions you have.Postage is $5 up to 500g, and $10 up to 3kg, and then above that by discussion.

Summary photos are here.

• Baby yarn 200g $12.50 (4 ply machine washable wool): orange and white, dyed in an interesting way so that one end of the skein is lots of orange, then it goes into a pale orange and lots of white in the middle, then back to more orange at the end. You can kind of see this effect in the wound ball.cake here

• Aran weight cashmere / wool blend! Pinky red colours - so soft! 200g. $17.50

• 75% wool / 20% mohair / 5% alpaca, 200g skeins, Lollypop Pink, Purple Pleasure (L-R skein #3 in this photo) and Flushed Cheeks (pale red). 8ply ish yarn. Lovely when knit but again - extra to a dyeing order so I have no need for it. $15 each.

• 50:50 mohair and wool 200g skeins, 8 ply: 1x Raspberry Tea, 1x Purely Purple, and 1x Kissed Lips. $15 a skein. Roughly 400m per skein. (L-R skein #1, #2 and #4!)

• Alpaca / wool blend, flecked underneath and sunset colours on top, NOT machine washable, $12.50 for 200g skein 8ply

• My Knitting Journal (a gorgeous book version of Ravelry - great for someone who’s not on the internet) $10

• Knitting Handbook (Viv Foster) $10

Lots and lots of yarn for sale!

I’ve been dyeing up a storm recently but you may notice a lot of purple and pink in there - not a lot of orange or red this time! But instead of posting the photos here in their entirety, click the link to pop up the skein you are going to purchase.

Postage - $5 for one skein, up to 500g (2-5 skeins depending on the type of yarns!) for no extrapostage cost. More than 500g and we’ll have to discuss. International purchases MORE than welcome.

Sock yarn (100g, 3ply superwash Australian wool - grown and milled and dyed) - $25 per skein
- Quantum Quatro
- Quantum Quatro

- Blue Moon
- Blue Moon

- Wisteria Thistle
- Wisteria Thistle

- Raspberry Beret
- Raspberry Beret
- Raspberry Beret
- Raspberry Beret

- Very Vermilion
- Very Vermilion

- Gold Fingers and Toes
- Gold Fingers and Toes

200g 12 py cashmere (this is a one-off skein and I am having trouble parting with it!) - $48 for the skein
- Roses are red

200g mohair/wool blend - $35 per skein
- Tomato Soup

- Raspberry Tea

- Blackberry Fool

30% wool / 69.6% cotton / 0.4% Lycra - $24 per skein
- Leprechaun

 
100g 8 ply 50:50 hemp and wool - $18 per skein
- Spearmint Heaven

200g skein 8ply 65% wool / 25% Blue Faced Leicester wool / 10% mohair - $37 per skein
- Palatinate purple
- Palatinate purple

- Pink Rouge

200g baby wool 100% superwash 3ply - $32 per skein
- Leprechaun (dyed dark Kelly Green through to white along the skein, for a UNIQUE effect as the start of the skein is different to the end)

Alpaca (8 ply - Australian grown, milled and dyed) - $42 per skein
- Strawberry Mousse

200g 8 ply superwash wool - $32 per skein

- Emerald City
- Emerald City
- Emerald City

- Port Wine Stain
- Port Wine Stain

- Grapey Goodness

- Passionfruit Vine

200g 8 ply 75% wool / 20% mohair / 5% alpaca - $44 per skein
- Rosebud Lips

- Hazelnut Cream

Photos all over the place!

Names!! Ok! Names!

Top 3 are upclose and personal on something or other, and another notsocloseup, and then yay! a decent group shot. It’s like taking photos of small children who’ve been on red cordial and cocopops for breakfast.

Then Spaghettification, Cold Nebula and Quite Cedar.

Row 3 is Cat’s Pjamas, Persephone and Deep River.

Orange Meow, Emerald City and Cherry Tree Lane (back by popular demand!!!).

And last but not least - Crayons in a Blender.  

I posted off a heap more sock yarn to OnePlanet the other day and by now I’m hoping that it’s arrived. This yarn was different and special because it is not the usual space-dyed stuff. Indeed it was pot luck - I dyed it in the pot, then painted spots and dots and stripes onto it so how it knits up is anyone’s guess! I also named them all sorts of things with the able help of Osk. And Zaria of course.

Ok so that’s just a taste - more photos when I swear some more coax my computer into letting me do so.

In the meantime:

"What, do I have something on my head?" 

Hi! I have just listed a range of yarns for your edification. With Christmas coming, I thought it would be a good time to offer my yarns, either for you to turn into a gorgeous creating or to gift to a lovely
knitter or crocheter in your life.

Link to yarn 

I’m drowning under school work at the moment - I have 3 weeks left to get through exams and such, then two weeks of placement. I haven’t knit for AGES though, so not a lot to show you - a Monkey Sock is somewhere by (and my pal knows this) I will be late in sending it off because I need to uni-on before then. Tubey is getting longer and more interested - no up to date pictures but I am now an inch down the body! Here’s a pic of the sleeves, nearly done:

I have been a-travelling recently as well - I have been to Canberra and saw the great things:

Bestest buddy part the first, The Knitting Revoluntionary:

Friends Amanda and Ness with bub on board:

Horses:

Me in my beret and scarf: